QA Engineer (Playwright/Cypress, Azure DevOps, API Automation) – Contract – Sandton (in-office)

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POSITION INFO:
Experience | Skills | Capability: •       Degree or diploma including 4+ years' working experience in the testing competency, covering both automated and manual testing. •       AZ-900 certification and other Azure certifications relevant to QA. •       Experience with test automation and continuous integration\/delivery tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, and RestSharp. •       Proficiency with Azure DevOps. •       Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans, orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing, and instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor\/Application Insights. •       Support the maintenance and enhancement of the CI\/CD pipeline. •       Strong technical knowledge and an ability to train development teams in the usage of test frameworks and infrastructure. •       Ability to navigate SQL or run queries to set up test data and validate technical aspects of initiatives. •       Knowledge of REST API and web\/mobile GUI testing, as well as experience writing automated API tests. •       Familiarity with AI-enabled testing tools and enthusiasm for exploring emerging approaches. •       Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable working in agile, DevOps-oriented environments.   Result: •       Automated regression, API, and performance suite coverage of critical user journeys. •       Improved release cycle time through reliable, fast feedback loops. •       Reduced defect escape rate to production year-on-year. •       CI\/CD pipeline health dashboards surface quality gates and AI-generated test insights in real time. •       Development teams adopt automation best practice through coaching and enablement. •       Test plans and test cases are maintained and improved. •       Defect management is clear, consistent, and traceable. •       Regression maintenance is actively managed. •       Active participation in the QA guild and QA community. •       Undertake any reasonable duties, aligned to your skills, that are required to achieve team objectives.